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page 1German literary critics
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)

Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Friedrich Schlegel
German poet, critic and scholar, editor

Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Christa Wolf
German novelist and essayist (1929–2011)

Klaus Mann
German writer (1906–1949)
August Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)

Franz Mehring
German communist historian, philosopher, and politician (1846–1919)

Erich Auerbach
German philologist (1892-1957)
Walter Jens
German philologist and writer (1923–2013)
Luise Rinser
German writer (1911–2002)
Ernst Robert Curtius
German philologist and literary scholar (1886–1956)
Adam Müller
German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state
Caroline Schelling
German writer and translator
Wolfgang Menzel
German poet (1798–1873)
Johannes Scherr
German novelist and literary critic (1817–1886)
Johann Heinrich Merck
German writer
Ludolf Wienbarg
German author (1802–1872)
Johann Gottfried Gruber
German literary critic
Werner Hamacher
German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction (1948-2017)
Oskar Loerke
German writer (1884-1941)
Julius Leopold Klein
German writer (1810–1876)
Hans Mayer
German literary scholar (1907–2001)
Otto Brahm
German theatre director (1856–1912)
Ulrich Karger
German writer
Karl Bleibtreu
German literary critic (1859–1928)

Margarete Steffin
German actress and writer (1908–1941)
Fritz J. Raddatz
German writer and journalist (1931–2015)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
German-born American literary theorist

Joachim Kaiser
German music critic (1928–2017)
Rudolf von Gottschall
German poet, dramatist literary critic and literary historian (1823–1909)
Johann Joachim Eschenburg
German literary critic
Karl Elze
German scholar and Shakespearian critic (1821-1889)
Alexander Baumgartner
Swiss writer (1841–1910)
Friedrich Lienhard
German playwright (1865-1929)
Ludwig Rubiner
German translator and writer (1881–1920)
Gottfried Bernhardy
German philologist and historian (1800–1875)
Georg Engel
German literary critic (1866–1931)
Heinz Ludwig Arnold
German literary journalist and publisher (1940-2011)
Walter Höllerer
German writer, literary critic, and literature scientist (1922–2003)
Erik Simon
German translator and writer

Denis Scheck
German writer
Michael Maar
German literary scholar and author

Max Koch
German historian and literary critic (1855–1931)
Gustav Pfizer
German writer (1807-1890)
Peter Hamm
German writer and literary critic (1937–2019)
Johannes Minckwitz
German author (1812-1885)
Andreas Huyssen
German academic
Hans Egon Holthusen
German writer and academic (1913–1997)
Dieter Borchmeyer
German literary critic

Frederick Klaeber
German academic (1863–1954)

Eduard Castle
German historian (1875–1959)
Iris Radisch
German journalist and television presenter

Walter Arthur Berendsohn
German literary scholar
Annette Pehnt
German writer, literary scholar and literary critic
Emil Faktor
German writer (1876-1942)

Hans Sahl
German poet (1902-1993)